skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not call this a runtime myself. Go's runtime is "stuff Go does while your program is running" which is very different than something like crt0 that does some initial setup. Either way, this is optional in C. Some setup is done by the OS as well (it's not like the "run time" makes up where the stack is going to be).
Flossing also hasn't been shown to not prevent tooth decay. (I.e. there is not much data to support one way or the other.) Also, some people don't carry the bacteria that create acid in their mouths, so (by chance) they don't need to floss/brush as much. Your dad might have been one of those people. If I don't brush or floss, I get like 5 cavities in 6 months. And my breath smells awful.

It's like type systems and productivity: we don't have a lot of data to say whether type systems make people more productive or not, but there are ton of SWEs who think that type systems make them more productive, and they are probably right (at least for their domains). Dentists, in their anecdotal experience, probably see patients improve once they start flossing and brushing. That's why they suggest it.
Dorsey left the Board and has seemed to be pretty critical of Bluesky.

Calling X and NoStr "freedom tech". Whatever that means.
Oh yeah Bluesky lol Took them years to launch a stripped down Twitter clone. Nostr at least had that obscurity thing going for it. Both were like "Ok? Now what?"

People are over Web3 protocols. We have torrents, email, git, and other decentralized technology that was invented to solve specific problems - this idea of inventing a social media protocol is cool, but it comes with all this baggage. It's a for-profit company - wait it's not a for-profit company - it's decentralized - wait it's not decentralized.

This dance never happened with a Napster or a Popcorn Time - it was very clear what the decentralized utility was, and it was really a means to an end of getting to the content. But Bluesky doesn't have any content I want, especially not badly enough to jump through those hoops, or use like a B-version of the real thing. It's like building a new restaurant to compete with the best steakhouse in town but you focus on the trays instead of the food.
Cnckitchen (original post) has done a lot of research into anisotropies of various plastics and settings, with surprising results. Check out his YouTube for more information
> Palm devices were a pleasure to use.

RIP Graffiti.
And then conveniently load the congress up with conservatives that would never ever deprive a business of their profits. because profits are sacred.
iSH has to do some insane user-mode x86 emulation, resulting in terrible performance penalty. The experience is not even close to similar where termux runs things directly on the metal.
Honestly the places that did it successfully didn’t try to make transit cheap, they didn’t subsidize cars. Requiring amenities like parking by law seems to be working at cross purposes to spending money on transit. For desirable real estate it seems the only way to make affordable housing it to take away expensive upgrades. I think we can agree that safety is not a luxury, but parking spots, private laundry, private kitchens, even private bathrooms, these are things that many people live without every day. I remember some of those times in my life fondly even. Making it illegal by force of law to live like that seems… counterproductive to me, if our stated goal is affordable housing.
Am I missing it? 3x faster than an Xbox 10 from 2020 sounds "just" like Moore's law growth

Cool! Thanks Apple!

I guess this is to be expected given your market position and billions in the bank?

Thanks so much for doing it. We'll definitely buy all your
Its hard to understand your argument: Pfizer monopolized the US vaccine market until the end of the lockdown as I said:

> In the beginning of the COVID-19 US epidemic in March 2020, sweeping lockdowns and other aggressive measures were put in place and retained in many states until end of August of 2020

> Moderna in early 2021

You will notice that date is later than the lockdown end date.

By summer 2019, Europe had around 5-6 different vaccines available. The US had only Pfizer. It remained like that until the end of the lockdown.
I believe at least Google is starting to do edge inference—take a look at the pixel 8 line-up they just announced. It doesn't seem to be emphasized as much, but the tensor G3 chip certainly has builtin inference.
Self-reporting on these reasons from the business itself is basically useless. No one's fact checking their claims nor do they provide evidence when making these kinds of social-narrative driven claims like "taxes are too high!" or "too much theft!". Businesses, including chains, fail all the time and the owners/managers have an inherent incentive to try and deflect any blame on environmental factors so they are looked at more favourably by corporate.
The fact that the carousel doesn't stop on hover makes for a super frustrating reading/viewing experience.
Bose sells line array speakers that will happily work if placed behind a standard mic. They are using anti-feedback DSPs to cancel the audio loop this creates. They can be used in a speaker per performer setup.

What is weird is that they don't talk about this. There is a graphic on products that can do this that show the speaker behind the mic. That's it, no text at all. I think the moral of this story is that marketing is weirder than engineering...
I wish Stackoverflow included "daily operating system" in their surveys, but I'd wager that 50%+ of professional developers use MacOS. For many reasons probably, but for me it's simply because it's a nice BSD system that translates well to Linux servers (prod).
the M3 was released Oct 30, 2023
the M4 was released May 7, 2024

[disco stu] if these trends continue, the M5 will be out on November 14, 2024
I think you are supposed to use their base images.
This is all true until you 30-something. You won't believe how your family culture and values kicks in when you become full-scale adult with non-delegateable responsibilities and other adult-life quirks. And then a midlife crisis punches you in the head. Just wait, the interesting times are ahead)
As someone who can understand both languages, it's less that the translators are obsessed and more that the gamergate-adjacent crowd has decided to drag their culture war into anime translations. There are a handful of examples where the translation could be debated and a lot more where it's actually pretty accurate and tonally consistent with the Japanese (which is often not exactly high literature itself), but some guy armed with a Japanese 101 textbook and Deep-L wants to get an internet mob going about it because he's convinced that someone with a trans flag in their Twitter profile can't possibly be doing it right, or that Japanese creatives themselves couldn't have left-wing/pro-LGBT views.

See: people getting mad about the word "LGBT" appearing in the English version when the Japanese version also literally said "LGBT".
It's Twitter minus the bullshit and minus the eternal September. I hope it stays that way.
When they pitch potential clients for their services, their slides on LLM, AI, ML, etc., must be their own. Whether they use it or not for the services does not matter. These are like the side projects that service companies release to help them close their clients.
Yeah it's a shame that mobile games are shit when console and PC gaming gets taken so serious by comparison. If you want to blame that on developers and not Apple's stupid-ass policies stopping you from emulating real games, be my guest. That's a take I'd love to hear.

Keep downloadin' those ads. This is what Apple wants from you, a helpless and docile revenue stream. Think Different or stay mad.
That is what people thought until around 2018, but it was wrong. It turns out that deep learning optimization problems have many global optima. In fact, when the #parameters exceeds the #data, SGD reliably finds parameters that interpolate the training data with 0 loss. Surprisingly, most of these generalize well and overfitting is not a big problem.

In other words, deep learning is a very special nonconvex optimization problem. A lot of our old intuition about optimization for ML is invalid in the overparameterized regime.
I don't really think it's a gender thing, my friends who were boys and I talked about books pretty frequently. They were pretty much the same as videogames, comic books, movies and shows to us so we'd talk about them in the same way.

I specifically remember that when the first Harry Potter (I was a child cut me some slack) came out I bounced off it because I didn't like it, and then one of my friends at school couldn't stop talking about it and got me interested enough to pick it back up.

And don't even get me STARTED on the LotR books. Or Star Trek novelizations (which I still consider books).
Light roasts are great! But there are just a lot of straight-up bad renditions of them, as a result of lack of adequate training on either roasting or brewing, to the consternation of many of those coffee snobs. Unfortunately, this just happens when shops follow trends.

Roasting well in general is already quite challenging and is a lot more than just arriving at a certain bean color or temperature. Vegetal flavors are very much a roasting mistake that's being passed off as an inherent characteristic of a light roast. Combine that with techniques better suited to brewing (or pulling shots of) darker roasted, and you have a recipe for a dull, astringent, sour cup.

That being said, a sour espresso shot is always possible regardless of dark the coffee is, so I'd argue it has a lot to do with a cafe owner's willingness to train themselves and their staff to work with lighter roasted coffee.
I don’t know a single engineer who had issues with M chips, and most engineers I know (me included) benefited considerably from the performance gains, so perhaps your niche isn’t that universal?
It's got a decent self-cleaning cycle. Every month or two, it'll ask you to put in a cleaning tablet (about $2 for the OEM version, or there are cheaper generic ones). It goes through an internal cleanse and poops out a slop of muckety muck. I put on soft yoga music for mine, but that's optional. Ten minutes later it's ready to use again.

About half as frequently, it'll also ask you to put in a descaling tablet. Similar process.

Beyond that, day-to-day, it can make about 8 shots of espresso before the grounds hopper is full. You just dump it and rinse it in the sink (no need for a thorough wash) and it's ready to use again. Less cleanup than a regular drip coffee maker (no filters to deal with, no grind dust to rinse/brush, no glassware, nothing to dry).

It's super convenient. The main downside is really just taste. I tried to do a blind taste test with my coffee snob friend (he's the kinda guy who measures everything down to the milligram and gives his grounds acupuncture before sending them to the spa). We used the same bag of beans, same water, same cups, etc. His came out with a layer of fine oils and sparkling foam. Mine looked like someone opened a dishwasher prematurely. We couldn't even get to the taste test part because you could smell the difference with your eyes closed. And I had a clogged nose that day.

Maybe the $3k Jura is different, but my janky little unit is definitely a poor man's machine – the hand-me-down Civic of superautomatic coffee makers. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat though.
Is the claim that there aren’t local many local minima for high dimensional problems eg in neural network loss functions?
Sort of; by "box", I mean it was like a 40-50lbs crate full of McNuggets. I didn't mean like six nugget box.

They noticed because we ran out of them during a rush hour and the owner of the franchise was confused because we should have had another box.
I love HN so much that we've been able to reduce this serious problem to an easy matrix representation that can be used to both demonstrate the problem and show solutions so easily.
I don't understand why the design is bad. Of course it's subjective, but what puts you off here?
That's a good reason why they didn't release it as Mac Book M4
Decker is superficially similar to HyperCard because it's primarily 1-bit, but it's different enough to require a totally new learning curve. It's quite difficult to use, requires learning "Lil" a new and unique language, and is missing many HyperCard/MacPaint affordances you might be looking for if you're expecting HyperCard.

The upshot is that HyperCard artists can't switch and continue to use HyperCard in a browser thanks to Infinite Mac.

So close, yet so far.

Similar, but different.
My niche is Ruby on Rails web dev, which is definitely not universal, but not all that narrow either!
There's more to "violent crime" than just murder.
But why would you resist the urge to use Nixie tubes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIGnATzBTg
I don’t think it’s a controversial opinion to state that yes, Apple software is higher quality and more privacy respecting than Samsungs.
The point of DEI is to have the widest possible distribution of life experience among the group. Of course 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men would have different life paths, but if you project them on 2D graph and draw a circle around them, then the distance to the point of white blue-eyed woman would be about 5 diameters of that circle, and to the point of black transgender person - about 15 diameters.
Unified memory is basically L3 cache speed with zero copy between CPU and GPU.

They have engineering difference. Depends on who you ask, it may or may not worth it
https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern

This is pretty much what we're building at Skyvern. The only problem is that inference cost is still a little bit too high for scraping, but we expect that to change in the next year
I forgot to mention that as an obvious exception. Of course developing for Apple is best on Apple hardware.
I own a Pixel 8. I've been impressed with it's performance and the general feel of using it over the past months. With Pixel 8a, the gap between A series phones and the non-pro version seems to be diminishing way too fast.

They still need to fix the modem issues and thereby increase battery life.
Exactly. And it's hard to overstate how little the average user cares about the AT Protocol.

"You can change providers!"
"You mean sign up on another website? Like when I moved here from Twitter?"
You got the model right, yes!

> decent design

it's not "decent design". "Design" is how things work. Button in the lid is bad design, excess poorly fit plastic (which costs some of that $10) is bad design. The kicker here is that it's both bad design and more expensive.

> $10

Where you got that from? Quick search shows $20-30+ in most countries, that is mid range and more than other better budget kettles.

It's even crazier in poorer countries like China or Philippines where $10-$12 is not just "a bit more", it literally buys you two or three kettles with better design (can open lid with single hand) and more capacity.

And that's their lowest end price you say...

Xiaomu is not "bringing decent design to the masses". This is duping "the masses" into spending more money on objectively worse product that they would have to throw away sooner.

> dud

No, other reviews about how button doesn't fully open lid or temperature sensor is off or rust are consistent.

Seriously, it's just a badly put together product with zero innovation and worse quality sold at higher prices than equivalents. That's Xiaomi in my experience
At the very least, I assume .+ at the start is a better choice.

The RFC says:

addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
word = atom / quoted-string

so I think the bit in front of the @ has to be non-empty.
I can't speak for the OP, but I've used a bare git repo for a number of years to manage my dotfiles, and in the few cases where I need to handle differences between machines, I've always been able to find a simple and straightforward, albeit ad-hoc, solution: for my shell, I `source local-config.${hostname}` when it exists; for my emacs config, I have a couple `cond` blocks in my config.el file; my preferred terminal emulator (kitty) can load multiple configuration files in sequence via passed arguments, so I can write a simple wrapper script and use a per-machine override .conf if necessary; etc etc. I don't currently put secrets in any text configuration files (nor can I envision myself doing so in the near future; I generally use a password manager, ssh/scp, or magic-wormhole to move secrets between workstations and servers where I have a user account), so I don't have a good answer for that one.

I imagine these solutions would scale poorly if I had a large number (dozens? hundreds?) of machines which all needed unique configurations, or if I used more tools which needed per-machine configuration, or if I needed to stick secrets in configuration files for some reason. Luckily for me, that's not the case, and my system has served me quite well as a result.
I hacked Microsoft's AI bot for healthcare on a Friday night
Is there no RDP equivalent for mac? Just RDP into your main workstation?
> who cares.

Oh most of us will definitely care once linux developers start targeting the Ubuntus instead of the Trisquels (like how developers now target "android" instead of AOSP). I mean just look at how Gnome behaves now that it is the default DE.

A truly mainstream distro would be the death of the Linux desktop. I hope that year never comes.
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> I do think Bluesky may have chose the wrong launch strategy by using the old and tired invite-only method. But hard to say for sure.

Hard to say indeed. I'm not sure how a social network bootstrap method can get "old and tired" either - humans don't change how they socialise that quickly!

Facebook achieved remarkable things by starting in the Ivy League community then branching out, it really stands as a fascinating example of how curating the early community is critical in the bootstrapping process for a social network. I'm happy to bet that there is a 0.01 to 1% of the population who actually matters for getting groups of people to use something, and if a social network manages to find them then it will succeed, invites or not.

It could be that there is too much dross out there for free for all signups early on. To me it looks like a core community should be established first.
Barlow wrote the famous "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence) in 1996, famous in its time but also somewhat poignant, given the commercialization of the internet not long after.

Barlow was also big on the WELL, an early influential time-sharing messaging system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL a Bay Area legends from a time when the Bay Area dominated in both technology and music). In many ways Hacker News is an intellectual inheritor of the WELL (along with Usenet and Slashdot).
The performance of their website got my attention.

People who care about those details and who optimize for fast are my kind of people.
Does it count if you used a Game Boy Player to play Wario Ware Twisted or Yoshi Tispy Turvy?
Were all of these optimisations always in Qt 4 from it's introduction in 2005?

Given some of them seem to need std::move(), I assume they were added later once C++11 was common?
this is so clearly a model hallucination, this doesn’t really show anything whatsoever
Even in Australia is the LLM lag to a server noticable?

Generally an LLM seems to take about 3s or more to respond, and the network delay to the US is a couple of hundred milliseconds.

The network delay seems minimal compared to the actual delay of the LLM.
I'm an engineer that has both an apple silicon laptop (mbp, m2) and a linux laptop (arch, thinkpad x1 yoga.) I choose the mac every day of the week and it's not even close. I'm sure it's not great for specific engineering disciplines, but for me (web, rails, sre) it really can't be beat.

The UX differences are absolutely massive. Even after daily-driving that thinkpad for months, Gnome always felt kinda not quite finished. Maybe KDE is better, but it didn't have Wayland support when I was setting that machine up, which made it a non-starter.

The real killer though is battery life. I can work literally all day unplugged on the mbp and finish up with 40-50% remaining. When i'm traveling these days, i don't even bring a power cable with me during the day. The thinkpad, despite my best efforts with powertop, the most aggressive frequency scaling i could get, and a bunch of other little tricks, lasts 2 hours.

There are niceties about Linux too. Package management is better and the docker experience is _way_ better. Overall though, i'd take the apple silicon macbook 10 times out of 10.
SF commercial real estate about to get a reality check
I can use all the books I’ve finished to keep myself and my family warm this winter!
you need to scrape all the way to the base and then fill back in when repaving. and you also can't lay asphalt in rain.
I'm sure it'll happen like the dearmoon project when SpaceX had flown people around the moon in 2018
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Eh, I have to use a MacBook Pro for work because of IT rules and I'm still not sold. Might be because I'm a Linux person who absolutely must have a fully customizable environment, but MacOS always feels so limited.

The devices are great and feel great. Definitely high quality (arguably, luxury!). The OS leaves a lot to be desired for me.
The statement that "NYC is one of the safest places in the country" and the relevance of per capita crime rates are two different discussions. When we say a place is "the safest," we're referring to the absolute level of safety.

Per capita crime rates, while useful for comparing the likelihood of crime between areas with different population sizes, don't determine the absolute safety of a place. They normalize crime data by population to show relative safety, which is a different metric.
I can confirm, we ”analyzed” the color of the curtains in some novel I now forget. I believe they were, in fact, blue. The teacher was adamant details like that were always meaningful and certainly not just to paint a scene. It was far from the only instance of such “analysis”.

What we actually learned from those lessons was that English/literature class was a waste of time and how to craft complete bullshit that sounds deep, which I guess is a useful skill.
The ultrasonic tub, (Vevor LOL, like everyone else gets for their bike parts), speeds up the process, specially oak shards.

For comparison, I also have a Soxhlet apparatus. As the extraction is boiled in the bottom with the recycling solvent it does not make the best flavours but it's the fastest way to get stuff like cinnamon.

Between a longer time, soxhlet and ultrasonic, the ultrasonic gives flavours as smooth as a longer time without the wait. (The ultrasonic bath heating up is still a problem so I have to cycle it).

Time beats both.

I think a short path soxhlet maybe be as good. My setup is a bit fragile for a good vacuum though.
That the H4 can get down to 2.0-3.9 W idle puts it into Raspberry Pi 4/5 levels of idle power consumption, which is extremely impressive. I assume they used the minimum sized RAM (8 GB) and eMMC instead of a NVMe drive.